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I'm guessing this is their response to TLG's constraction figures being a much better value than their current Transformers lineup. The correct response would be to stop selling their dinky little FOC and RID figures for 15+ dollars, but whatever.

I'm guessing this is their response to TLG's constraction figures being a much better value than their current Transformers lineup. The correct response would be to stop selling their dinky little FOC and RID figures for 15+ dollars, but whatever.

It doesn't really remind me of Hero Factory. If anything the building system feels more like Duplo Toolo.

But hey, it's better than Kreo.

Well the whole shtick of the line is to mix and match armor, so I'm definitely seeing the parallels.

Most people on Transformers sites are calling it "Transformers x Bionicle," but that one I'm not seeing.

BIONICLE had just as much emphasis on armor mixing-and-matching as Hero Factory does, IMO. Or at least, as much as it could have with its more restrictive building system.

Really the main parallels to Hero Factory I see are the use of "beams" and "shells", but that's something BIONICLE also had to a great extent. And most of the shells and beams attach to each other by clips rather than ball cups or ball snaps. The only ball joints I see are where the limbs connect to the torsos and where the hands and feet connect to the limbs. Which is good, because if everything were based around the ball joint it would probably be infringing on TLG's patents on the Hero Factory building system.

No surprise, Hasbro steals Lego's designers, then they steal Lego's business model, now they steal the constraction concept.

While I have no doubt Hero Factory inspired these models, I wouldn't call it theft or even ripping off an idea. The concept of buildable action figures is very basic, and I'm not even sure TLG is the originator of it (certainly there were other figure-building kits even before BIONICLE, such as Bonz by Zolo, though the wacky critters those kits are desgined to build could hardly be called "action figures"). And the building system here is distinct from any LEGO has used.